i just installed the new Angstrom x11 Image on my SimPad SLC. Works nice.But i can't find a way to get my Wlan Card up and running. The card works, I used it under familiar before.

If I click on "PC/CF Cards" under Settings, I get an error message "PCMCIA initialisation failed No PCMCIA driver in '/proc/devices'"If i open the "Root shell" and type in "pccardctl ident" it finds the card at Socket 0 and knows it's a function 6 (network) card.

What am I missing here? Can someone point me to a manual somewhere, that explains how to get the pcmcia card running under angstrom?

i just installed the new Angstrom x11 Image on my SimPad SLC. Works nice.But i can't find a way to get my Wlan Card up and running. The card works, I used it under familiar before.

If I click on "PC/CF Cards" under Settings, I get an error message "PCMCIA initialisation failed No PCMCIA driver in '/proc/devices'"If i open the "Root shell" and type in "pccardctl ident" it finds the card at Socket 0 and knows it's a function 6 (network) card.

What am I missing here? Can someone point me to a manual somewhere, that explains how to get the pcmcia card running under angstrom?

Are the corresponding modules loaded (hostap, hermes or whatever is fitting your card) or installed ? I guess not.

A) The modules are not installed. If this is the case you will have to look in the Simpad feeds for the modules and manually install them. The modules are installed but not loaded, in this case you can use modprobe manuall to check whether something changes when loading the modules.

It all dependes on the type of your card so it would be a good idea to have more details.

- flashing with serial console vie USB / serial adapter work fine (little slow with serial) ... - on first startup to set clock and timezone no virtual keyboard available ...- missing berlin/german timezone / german localization (maybe I am able to help!)- missing usbnet support on Simpad ...

hi,thanks for testing the images .please report those bugs to the bugtracker [1].

-sound is not working atm. because there is no driver for it in 2.6 [2]

-serial keyboard should work with kbdd [3]. but I am not shure if there isn't a kernel side driver for your keyboard so that you even don't need kbdd. But please report this also to the bugtracker because kbdd is not in angstrom feeds [4].

- some wireless drivers are missing in the feeds. i need to check that. but please also send it to the bugtracker .

- flashing with serial console vie USB / serial adapter work fine (little slow with serial) ... - on first startup to set clock and timezone no virtual keyboard available ...- missing berlin/german timezone / german localization (maybe I am able to help!)- missing usbnet support on Simpad ...

The main problem right now is with PCMCIA, which prevents any kind of networking:- a CF card adapter is recognized properly and mounted- my old ethernet card (Linksys EC2T) which is supported by pcnet_cs and works in Familiar is not recognized when inserted. I only get the message "pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0" in the console. Loading the module pcnet_cs before or after inserting the card doesn't fix that (the module is included in the jffs2 images)- my WLAN card (prism2-based), which works with hostap on Familiar, isn't recognized either. Incidentally, I noticed that kernel-module-hostap_cs is neither present in the images, nor in the simpad feed, although the hostap utilities are installed...- "pccardctl ident" only works with the CF card adapter- shouldn't there be a /proc/bus/pccard directory? (maybe not, but it's here on my linux 2.6.22 workstation)

has anybody got an ethernet or wifi card to work?

bugs.openembedded.org is down at the moment, so I cannot file any bug for these, sorry.

I can't wait for the day when I'll have a working Angstrom tablet with minimo running on it ;-)

Same problem with the newest Angström-Image on my SIMpad. Tried a manual installation of pcmcia*.ipk's. No success. As a newbie no chance for me. Confused. The rest looks fine to me. Tried to manually install the mini-browser package. As a newbie no success. I'd better wait for the "professionals".Seems to be promising.

Oh boy, that's bad. This matter should be handled with priority, because without PRISM1 wlan support, this image is completely useless. I tried two different cards, one Siemens I-GATE, and one Typhoon Speednet Wireless, both are not even recognized:

hi all,mr data solved our general pcmca problem on simpad ... many thaks with a new hostap patch from here [1] I was able to use my siemens igate card on that pad with hostap!

here [2] is an _unofficial_ angstrom image. please test it!

it is based on linux 2.6.24 kernel. so you won't be able to get driver modules for it on the official angstrom feed.

besides we need YOUR help. please report a list of cards etc. if you want to have a kernel module in angstrom stable tree! we will enable every buildable kernel module in the kernel config, that you will have a comfortable way to install/upgrade them.In a few days or maybe a week we will send the 2.6.24 to oe/angstrom. as far as I know the angstrom distribution plans an update image in the near future. we try to have everything done until this image will be released.